Ah, words of wisdom, yours just reminded me of one - " This life is yours. Some of it was given to you; the rest, you made yourself

I saw a show this week on Discovery channel (maybe it was the Sc channel)..on transgenic animals.

For example, salmon which grow 4-6 times larger faster than normal salmon (to help with providing food).

Near the end of the show was a mouse... developed for something else, I missed that part---that when you punch a hole in its ear, it regrows the ear. Not a scar. This was found by accident, and now they are studying it as a regenerating mouse. It was said to be the first mammal regeneration documented.

That is really amazing Mrs D, i would have liked to have seen that show.

Partial or complete regeneration of simple tissues (as opposed to whole complex organs), meaning healing, takes place in healthy people all the time. Even the damage caused by illness heals in healthy people after the illness passes. An example is bacterial damage to the throat membranes caused by strep throat. Our throat tissues heal and gradually stop hurting after the infection goes away. The problem with most of us here with PN is that we are not healthy, so our peripheral nerves do heal.

I think that inflammation is the root cause of the myriad ills people describe in this forum. Inflammation prevents healing or even causes progressive damage. Our general high level of inflammation can have many causes usually acting together. Examples include aging, exposure to drugs or other toxins, infection, allergy, lack of exercise, poor diet, poor stability of blood glucose, hormonal imbalance as with chronic anger, or chillingly, covert cancer.

For most of us, reduce generalized inflammation and our neuropathy and pain will either heal or get considerably better and stop progressing.

I agree that our bodies do have a remarkable ability to heal itself but only if they are in the right environment to be able to do so, i mean, in my case it was my prediabetic state & low levels of b12 that were destroying my nerves but once corrected they did heal.

Brian